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Russia, China veto UN resolution demanding Aleppo truce

UNITED NATION, United States (AFP) -- Russia and China on Monday vetoed a UN Security Council resolution calling for a…

Trump meets on cabinet appointments

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) - by Dave Clark Donald Trump girded Monday for a busy day of meetings to fill…

Military veterans to join Standing Rock ‘water protectors’ in pipeline protest

  NORTH DAKOTA, United States (Reuters) -- In the back reaches of the Dakota Access Pipeline protest camp, U.S. military…

California warehouse fire death toll climbs to 33

by Nick OTTO OAKLAND, United States (AFP) -- The death toll from a fire at a California warehouse where a…

Obama bids farewell, for now, to art world

by Olivia HAMPTON WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- President Barack Obama attended his last Kennedy Center Honors gala Sunday, making…

Trump picks Twitter fight with China

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- US President-elect Donald Trump fired a Twitter broadside at China on Sunday, accusing the Asian…

Kerry accuses Israeli right of sabotaging peace process

WASHINGTON,United States (AFP) -- US Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday accused right-wing Israelis of deliberately thwarting efforts to…

Trump talk with Taiwan leader just a ‘courtesy call’: US VP-elect Pence

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- President-elect Donald Trump's controversial telephone conversation with the leader of Taiwan was just a "courtesy…

Fidel Castro’s dying wish: No monuments in his name

  SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba (AFP) -- Cuba will respect Fidel Castro's dying wish that no statues be erected in…

Up to 40 feared dead in blaze at California party

  by Glenn Chapman with Jocelyne Zablit in Los Angeles Agence France Presse   OAKLAND, United States (AFP -- Up…

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